Please welcome our five new fellows for 2016. The Division of Nephrology is proud to have them join our team. We wish them luck as they navigate orientation and training, and mastering the layout of this great medical complex! We look forward to an exciting year of learning from each other. Left to right: Pooja […]
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Goodbye and Hello
When the hallway flooded because of a leaking pipe last week, who was the first person we notified? Lynn. What do we do when a package that was absolutely, positively guaranteed to arrive today… but didn’t? We tell Sue. Lynn Wesselmann (Research Administrator) and Daryl Sue Louzader (Purchasing Supervisor) find solutions to the problems, big […]
Division of Nephrology Length of Service Milestones
Much has changed in clinical care and research at Washington University and the Division of Nephrology over the past several decades. Just ask our employees who have witnessed many of those changes! Yes, it’s that time of year when the Division of Nephrology acknowledges our employee Length of Service Milestones. Whether you are celebrating 5 […]
Happy Birthday, Forest Park
Still Beautiful at 140 Years Old: Happy Birthday, Forest Park On June 24, 1876, the opening day and dedication of Forest Park, the St. Louis Post Dispatch declared, “The forest is indescribable in its loveliness. The large trees stand as nature planted them, their long branches spreading over the roadways and beautiful swards, in which […]
Announcing the Second Midwest Transplant Symposium
Washington University School of Medicine announces the Second Midwest Transplant Symposium, October 14 and 15, 2016 at the Institute of Public Health, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Course Directors are Tarek Alhamad, MD, MS and Daniel C. Brennan, MD, FACP. This CME-accredited (8.5 hrs) in-depth review and update in kidney and pancreas […]
Limp of Henle Steps Up
Division of Nephrology Outsteps Competition A Division of Nephrology team entered the WashU Moves step challenge three months ago. “Limp of Henle” team members Steven Cheng, MD, George Jarad, MD, Hary Hoffman, RN, Ben Humphreys MD, PhD and Anitha Vijayan, MD have collectively walked more than 6,500,000 steps since the contest began 80 days ago. […]
Andreas Herrlich MD, PhD Joins Division
Andreas Herrlich MD, PhD Joins Division We are pleased to annouce that Andreas Herrlich, MD, PhD joined the Division of Nephrology this month. Dr. Herrlich received his MD (1994) and PhD (1998) degrees from the Freie University Berlin, Berlin, Germany and performed graduate work on the ‘transactivation’ of receptor tyrosine kinases by stimuli that activate […]
Dan Brennan, MD Honored at AST in Boston
Brennan Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award Dan Brennan, MD was presented the American Society of Transplantation’s Senior Achievement Award in Clinical Transplantation at the AST Annual Meeting in Boston. This prestigious award honors a senior investigator whose lifelong work has advanced the field of transplantation. Remarkably, Dr. Brennan is a previous recipient of the AST […]
Fellow Graduation Party
Fellowship Graduation Party We celebrated our graduating nephrology fellows with a party and gentle roast on June 3. Turning the tables, the fellows then roasted the attendings. Pictured here, Dr. Vijayan, Nephrologist of Steel and protector of Dialysis, according to the fellows. Our own Dr. Seth Goldberg arrived to the evening in style, driving his […]
Edrees Publishes RRT Article
The optimal modality of renal replacement in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury remains a source of controversy. First year renal fellow Fahad Edrees, MD, tackled this important issue in his recent article entitled, “Prolonged Intermittent Renal Replacement Therapy,” published in Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease. With faculty coauthors Tingting Li, MD and Anitha […]